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We need some more north south players to balance out the east west guys like Skinner
Always get afraid of hearing ‘size’ being the first attribute. Sabres sure could use more players like him though.
how far out is he?
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7 minutes ago, E4 ... Ke2 said:
HellOh
According to Chad Dominicis: McCabe+ for Vesey will be announced today.
+ Sobotka, Sheary, or Okposo is what it would take for me to not be disappointed in the trade.
McCabe is a bit of a potato brain though with those head and repeat shoulder injuries, so losing him may not really affect the long term.
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5 minutes ago, TrueBlueGED said:
Prior to coming to Buffalo, Tage had 20 points in 46 AHL games. So no, he hadn't proven anything.
I'm well aware of what Botterill said, I just think it's a bunch of hogwash. True or not, there's literally nothing else he can offer to explain Tage being in the NHL all year.
He had two stints. Second stint was PPG
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2 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
He had the most offensively sheltered minutes in the league, essentially. Despite not getting a lot of time with our three good scoring forwards, we couldn't have done much more for him than we did. Further, if you try to adjust his stats and metrics for teammates/situation, he winds up looking worse. He was a bad NHLer in the 18-19 season and probably shouldn't have been there.
I agree that we should have spent more time on the 23-37 duo, especially as the season wound down, but we had to keep Reinhart with Jack and Skinner so that we could continue to win one game out of sixteen. That's more important than actually doing interesting things, and seeing what players can do, dammit!Faceoffs are overrated. He played 4th line minutes with criminal possession losers.
We we could have given him linemates who didn’t just lose the puck every time it hit their stick. Mittelstadt is a player who excels with tic tac toe, and was almost never given a winger who had the hockey IQ to pull that off.
He’s one of those players who will look bad with low hockey iq teammates because he isn’t a puck hog and relies upon his teammates to do equally smart things with the puck. He had awful linemates in college too. Give him smart guys like Reinhart on his line and his production will not just increase like Reinhart might do with others, but exponentially so.
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1 hour ago, TrueBlueGED said:
Tage spending all season in the NHL while Nylander played in Rochester continues to be one of the great mysteries from last season.
Only if you aren’t paying attention. Jason literally said that Tage’s problems were best fixed playing in the NHL, whereas Nylander had yet to prove he could even produce in the AHL.
Tage had already proven he could PPG in the AHL. Tage’s problem was that his cute moves didn’t work against NHL defenders like they do in the AHL and he needed to experience that first hand or ride the bench. He immediately produced in the AHL when eventually sent down—- proving he was not ‘ruined’, he just needs to find a way to make his game work without the cute moves
Nylander was was a summer removed from being a healthy playoff scratch in the AHL. A skill player with opportunity to play first line who can’t produce in the AHL doesn’t magically produce in the NHL Only role players get away with that progression. Or some college freshman, etc in the more physical leagues.
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Any Risto to Tampa trade is going to have Foote being one of the primary returns. Tampa is in win-now mode and just needs cap relief and replacement RD with grit — they aren’t going to trade their NHL proven cost controlled assets to pick up Risto. They might be willing to trade away defenders they can’t wait two years on to make sure they can repeat their Presidents trophy next two years, and this time have enough grit in the lineup to play playoff hockey.
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54 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
He's not a disappointment, he looked exactly like you'd expect a sub-PPG college player to look being thrust into the NHL - bad. I'm not disappointed by it, I expected roughly as much. The only people whose expectations had to shift around are those who thought that because of a 7 game tournament he was destined to be 1C talent.
I don't think he'll always be bad, I just think the clear view of him as a prospect is not what Pronman got everyone all excited for. I still think his ceiling is a 70 point guy that helps give us one of the best center spines in the league.He was the center anchored by Okposo nearly the entire season. I don’t think he’s a 1C, and I think he would make a better winger, but given his line mates I don’t have any concerns about his last season. When he had Reinhart at wing he was producing PPG pace, Housley was just too awful of a coach to maintain smart lines and instead kept trying to force Eichel-Reinhart to work instead.
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23 hours ago, Randall Flagg said:
WAR/GAR models (which also isolate player impacts from team, opponent, and situation) have Cirelli as a top 30 player in the NHL, so it's not just my eye that sees it.
Mitts was a bad NHL player this year. I completely buy the excuse that it's because he's little and weak, but what Cirelli showed in the NHL this year in terms of potential (of course his raw point total is low when every offensive situation imaginable is force fed to the Stamkos and Point lines, and when his linemates are Joseph and Killorn) dwarfs anything from Mitts' high school year, or his college year, or his NHL year. That's not to say that Mitts can't become a good player, of course he can - but Anthony was an excellent two-way NHL forward this past season, and will explode in the proper setting, just like Brayden Point flipped a switch from 66 point rookie season to top 10 NHL player, despite chasing every team's best player around the ice all night.
Mitts' development curve is eerily similar to Tyson Jost, however you feel about Tyson Jost. There is plenty of potential, it's just the other guy we're talking about already has a measurable and tremendously positive impact on NHL hockey and is also young with loads of room to grow.Mittelstadt was an out of shape 19yo who was only one year removed from high school hockey and played a light college schedule in between. His best games unsurprisingly always came after the little breaks in the schedule last season.
Kids a player, has the heart, smarts, and all the physical attributes you want on the chart.
Hes only a disappointment if you thought Housley was going to make the team go the distance last season. Housley never was.
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5 minutes ago, Hoss said:
If 31 was enough to get Kapanen someone would've traded for him by now
It’s a situation where you sit by patiently like a vulture while the bloated maple leaf takes its last breath after chewing down its third 11+ million dollar contract.
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Mittelstadt-Eichel-Oloffson
Skinner-Reinhart-Nylander
Sheary/Smith-Rodrigues-Thompson
Girgensons/Wilson-Larsson-Okposo
Trade targets to upgrade/shelter/demote Oloffson, Nylander and/or Thompson. Sign Pominville/Vanek for fan service if trade deals don’t work out and they don’t want to gift all the rookies spots
Sobotka waived, Sheary expendable, I won’t pretend Okposo can be moved
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Kapanen is the player in Toronto worth stealing if possible. Wouldn’t cost Risto (i.e. won’t really help them get better), and would transform our team.
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Pomminstein is a smart player, but he is out of gas. If we have a lot of line drivers he is a great compliment, but the Sabre’s currently lack line drivers outside of Eichel/Erod. Hopefully the new coach revives the line driving tendencies out of guys like Girgensons again, but fact is we’re still playing with a lot of complimentary guys.
We could use some bigger guys who at least attempt to possess the puck longer than a hot potato. Vesey ain’t anything special, I agree, and he will never hold a candle to Pomminstein in his prime, but if you’re trading something like Sobotka/Sheary the other way—who cares? Overpaid 3rd line winger to hold the spot until he either transforms as a player under a new/coach and system, or gets replaced from within.
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1 hour ago, Hoss said:
I think ignoring where she comes from and where she is now is certainly one way to be sure your mind doesn’t define that as success. She’s a successful person. Her teams have not been successful (though I think Bills fans are very satisfied with where the team has gotten and where it’s heading under them).
I don’t need the diversity council leader to have Stanley Cups. That’s not what such a venture is about.
Youre forgetting the main tenet of interpreting corporate actions: it’s always just about the money.
Women are generally poorer negotiators and having more female execs is cheaper for the owners. Plus, the league has been failing to cater to a female audience over the years, despite thrusting every pink and black jersey in front of them they could. They want the PR and look at it as a win win.
Kaepernicks/WHL lawsuits/etc are expensive and they want to be proactive to prevent them.
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Stastny and Carrier for Sheary
Sign Vanek 1yr
all the 26s
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9 hours ago, Skurk Liger said:
Brady Tkachuk: 8g, 23a, 40games, 0.775ppg
Tage Thompson: 14g, 18a, 36games, 0.889ppg
I realized that Thompson and Tkachuk are both larger forwards who played their draft year in the NCAA. They are only 1.5months apart in age so they are good comparables. Thompson played on a less talented team than Tkachuk. Tkachuk did better outside of college at the WJC than Tage. I bring this up because I find it interesting that Tage is a Sabre and we know that Botterill was trying to trade for #3 overall and supposedly Brady Tkachuk.
13 of those goals were on the power play. Different players.
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Pominville has a NMC.
Erod is up to stay.
Nobody would claim Baptiste or Bailey if they were waived anyway
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Kaliyev is so ugly, such a Boston player